Improvement in dash-boards for vehicles



W. C. PEEL.

Dash-Boards for Vehicles.

Patenied Manchu, 1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

XVILLIAM O. PEEL, OF SPRINGFIELD, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JUSTUS V. ELSTER, OF HILLSBOROUGH, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DASH-BOARDS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 48,746, dated March 17, 1874; application led March 6, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. C. PEEL, of Springfield, Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Metal Moldings for Dash-Boards and other parts of Carriages and Buggies, of which the following is a specication:

The nature of my invention relates to an improvement in dash-boards for buggies and vehicles of all kinds; and it consists in the manner of attaching the metal molding to the top`of the dash-board by slipping it under a row of heavy stitchin g and then securingKit in place by a screw, as will be more fully described hereafter.

Figure l is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a section of the same. Fig. 3 isa vertical cross-section of the upper edge.

a represents the metallic frame, over which the leather is placed and secured in position by the stitching B. The edge of the leather extends a suitable distance above the top of the frame a, and has a row of very heavy stitching, 2, run along its top, under which the edges of the metal tube O catch, so as to pre-l vent its being raised upward, as shown in Fig. 3. A screw, E, is then screwed into the leather at each end7 so as to prevent any endwise movement of the tube.

These stitches and screws hohl the molding firmly and securely in place, and are much cheaper and simpler than any devices heretofore used.

I am aware that the use of metal moldings for the protection of dash-boards is not new, and therefore do not claim its use broadly; but

What I do claim as new and patentable is- The combination of a metal molding, C, retained in its place upon the edge of a dashboard by a row of stitching, D, under the molding, all combined substantially as set forth.

WM. O. PEEL. W'itnesses:

WICK BRETNEY, WM. H. HARRISON. 

